Sophont definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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It's the way a brave human child might think, but Sugar is not a human, nor even one of a member of one of the handful of borderline-sophont species outside the higher primates (dolphins, seals, elephants, squids, parrots, corvids) who have demonstrated some ability to reason causally.

—Armed and Dangerous

Examples (4)

But the pre-sophont remained an unspecialized dweller in wet jungles. — "You can't leave now," Daniel Holm told his son
And if the Port-a-Brain has the Hidden Ones fooled into thinking it's a sophont, it's passed the Turing test. — Phule Me Twice
It's the way a brave human child might think, but Sugar is not a human, nor even one of a member of one of the handful of borderline-sophont species outside the higher primates (dolphins, seals, elephants, squids, parrots, corvids) who have demonstrated some ability to reason causally. — Armed and Dangerous
"They'll just naturally wipe out any kind of sophont. — Phule Me Twice